River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-03-17
HISTORY OF THE WEEK.

Capt. James B. Eads, the dis
tinguisheI engineer, died March s, at Mas
sau, New Providence, of pneumonia. He
was born at Lawrenceburg, Ind, in $50,
and from the age Of 10 made engineering
his life study. AT the request OF President
Lincoln he designed the powerful gunboat
fleet that operated the Mississippi river dur
ing the civil war, the first irouclads built in
the United States. He first applied steam
TO the discharge of be Ivy artillery and
built the famous steel arch bridge at St
Louis His greatest work was the construc-
ton OF Jetties at the mouth of the Missis-
sippi river. He was the author of the Te-
bauntepec ship canal project, which was
favorably considered by the last Congress,
but no bin passed.
The circulation of standard silver dol
lars is now s5.214.5lO, out of total coinage
of $50 al ,647. The silver certificates in cir
culatiOn amount 10 sI23. 290. S92, which leaves
Ss5-gj6, rs net standard silver dollars in the
treasury. The gold coin and bullion in the
treasury, less S10.0l3,054 gold certificates in
circulation, amounts TO Sli5274, 7g5.
The business failures duriug the sew
en- days ending March IL, number; For the
United States, 23O; for Canada, So; total
%; compared with 30 last week and 239
the corresponding week of last year. The
AlAIAtuNr - Ui1AutN 10 AdIdud
and the British provinces A considerable
increase Is also apparent in the Pacific
States and in the South.
An incendiary fire occurred at
Howells, Mich, breaking out a little before
midnight on the 18th, in F. n. Monroe's
hardware store, and in a short time business
property Of the value of 5000 was
destroyed. with insurance OF S3O,uOO
To the fact that Mr.. Monroe is an ardent
ProhibitiOnist this destruction of property
Is attributed
1t Is estimated that 10000 people
witnessed the public funeral of Mrs. Neebe,
wife Of the anarchist, at Chicago, on
Sunday. The procession vas composed of
5000 people and La carriages. with only
one band Of music. All banners were
furled and draped and no red flags carried.
The utmost order prevailed.
About a. m, on the 18th, at Cole
man, Texas, masked robbers raided the
office of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
railroad and ssheld up the Express com
pany employees. securing about SS,OOO IN
money, after which car loaded with bran
was set on fire, TO divert attention and
retard pursuit
Columbus Temple. who lives in a
lonely, sparsely settled part of Washing
ton. ID. c.. came home and found the life
less blackened form Of his wife half envel-
oped in smoke from smouldering garments.
The overturned kerosene lamp lying near
where she had fallen was all that remained
10 tell the story of the accident.
Fire, from unknown cause destroyed
the voorhees, cotton shed at Memphis
Tenn, at ! 80 a m, ON the 18th. Thirteen
hundred bales of cotton were burned with
the loss of SJ0,O0O and insurance reaching
about $4,000.
The Commissioner of agriculture in
tends to make the promptest and best use of
the 5000 appropriation to extirpate the
pleuro- pneumonia cOntagi which has
spread so widely among cattle
The Montreal French board of trade
proposes an international congress Of Cana
dian and American boards of trade in June
next 10 discuss the pending difficulties be
tween the two countries.
Michael Dumont, one of the leaders
OF the Riel instruction. who escaped with
Gabriel DunIont to this country, has re-
turned to st. BOniface since the prOclama-
ton of amnesty.
Hon Geo. H. Pendleton, u. 5. Min
ister to Germany, sailed from New York on
the 9th Mrs. Bayard Taylor and daughter
were passengers by the same steamer.